Healthy Savannah Receives CDC’s 2022 Lark Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing Health Equity Challenge

Healthy Savannah has announced that it has received the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) 2022 REACH Lark Galloway-Gilliam Award for Advancing Health Equity Challenge. The award recognizes extraordinary individuals and entities whose work has contributed to advancing health equity. Thamara Labrousse from Live Healthy Miami Gardens (Florida) was the individual award recipient.

The REACH Lark Award is presented to individuals and organizations that have engaged with the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) program to assist with and carry out culturally tailored interventions that advance health equity, reduce health disparities, and increase community engagement to address preventable health risks such as tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and inadequate access to clinical services.

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